Imbolchottie@AOL.COM on sat 14 jun 03
OK Ron Roy - I figure the money I spent on Mastering Cone 6 will save me in
the glaze pocketbook down the line. I still have many questions (and Lily K.
I'll hole up for a spell and try to read) Questions can be answered by my
email, so I don't clutter up the list with the ABC questions of ceramics.
Is it possible to REGLAZE a piece? One prof told me to preheat it before
dipping or brushing again, but I've had sporadic luck with that (to hot & they
crack). Someone else said use Kayro syrup (er, huh?)
I know barium is not a welcome guest at the dinner table - but what happens
if you glaze the outside of a bowl with a barium glaze and the interior w/ a
food friendly glaze? Someone else did this and should I say something?
Really interested in single firing greenware to finished product...whoa, what
a concept.
I'm sure there must one or two Wiccan's out there, does anyone ever schedule
their firings around the phases of the moon?
Been reading the archives - ok, I'll start putting 'human' on the plates, and
'cat' and 'dog' on those bowls meant for the critters. Would 'biped, carbon
based, ape descendant life form' suffice?
Love & light - Jonathan
"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't
things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate
value of what one does." James Hilton
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage"
Georgia O'Keeffe
Tom Sawyer on sun 15 jun 03
Jonathan, you wrote "Is it possible to REGLAZE a piece? One prof told me to
preheat it before
dipping or brushing again, but I've had sporadic luck with that (to hot &
they
crack). Someone else said use Kayro syrup (er, huh?)"
Both of the above work but the easiest and best way I've found is to use
commercial glazes. They tend to be thick and have lots of gum in them and
they stick and don't run. I keep a few favorites in my studio for such
purposes. For the generally glazing that I do, I mix my glazes. Two of my
favorites to use for reglazing are spectrum glazes; wheat and dark red; the
wheat mixes with many other glazes to give very beautiful colors; I tend to
use the red for spot defects as it gives an interesting highlight. By the
way the wheat over Ron's Black is very striking. The spectum greenstone is
also another that gives good results; like everything some are dogs.
Tom Sawyer
tsawyer@cfl.rr.com
Ron Roy on mon 16 jun 03
Hi Jonathan,
Seems like a simple question - until I decided to answer it.
Stable glazes can be made with Barium - testing will tell you if you have
one that will leach negligible amounts into food.
We recommend in our book to keep the glazes that will leach unsavory stuff
on the outside but that is not the whole story.
Unstable glazes change in use - some quite dramatically - some times when
in contact with food and sometimes with soap. It will pay in the long run
to know which glazes are going to be a disappointment to your customers.
So to answer your question directly - stable liner glaze inside but maybe
an unstable glaze outside is not necessarily the idea solution.
Many think that to get the effects they want the glaze must be unstable -
well maybe - sometimes. That kind of thinking is often not so much a
comment on the glaze but rather a comment on the glaze makers ability.
RR
>I know barium is not a welcome guest at the dinner table - but what happens
>if you glaze the outside of a bowl with a barium glaze and the interior w/ a
>food friendly glaze? Someone else did this and should I say something?
Ron Roy
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iandol on mon 16 jun 03
Dear Jonathon,
You ask <anyone ever schedule their firings around the phases of the moon?>>
Can't say I'm a Wiccan. Thought that was "Secret Women's Business". But =
there is some feral thinking that "Live " kilns, those which use some =
form of active carbon based fuel, give improvements to both efficiency =
and product if the "Glass" is falling and the Mist is rising or rain is =
falling. If observation correlates those phenomena with First or last, =
or any other "Quarter" of the Moon, then you might have evidence on =
which to base a new theory.
Best regards,
Ivor Lewis.
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